of something I know I will want to drink repeatedly, and 1 oz. is a little more than I want to buy of one type of tea (I tend to get 2 oz. Passion Petal at $12 is their cheapest oolong, but 3 oz. Recall from my last review of a sample from Artful Tea that their minimum purchase of bulk tea is 3 oz. But if Artful Tea doesn’t want to give me more than a teaspoon in an expensive sample, well, then I have to go with what they give me to work with.
I feel bad giving this tea a lowish score (for me) when I suspect it would be more flavorful and drinkable if the tea amount were doubled or more. Overall it is slightly flavored/perfumed hot water. I would not have been able to identify it as rose if I didn’t have the ingredients on the wrapper in front of me. Mango and passion fruit are gone, but there is a very faint floweriness if I really concentrate. Brewed, I’m not getting much of anything in the scent or flavor: a very vague dark oolong flavor (this is not the lighter, greener oolong that can be buttery/flowery, this is the stuff that to me tastes like light pu-erh) with a tiny bit of tanginess from the aronia berries. The liquid becomes sort of a medium brown and is transparent. Scent in the leaf: the mango and passion fruit come out a considerable amount. In my smallest tea cup (a sweet little fluted clear cup from Ikea) I am still getting not much in the way of flavor, even overbrewed. That’s just not enough to make a proper cup of tea with anything but regular black tea, I’m sorry. ONE sample bag, in one of those brown paper fill-your-own tea bags, stapled inside a small wax bag and wrapped in a paper label with info about the tea, is $2.50, the cost of an entire grocery store box of tea bags-yet there’s barely a teaspoon in the tea bag. I’m starting to get irritated with the one-hand-filled-tea-bag sample size at Artful Tea in Santa Fe. It’s possible the name on Steepster was what they used to call it, or just a mistake.) (Note that the name of this tea on my sample bag wrapper and on the website as of today is “Passion Petal”.
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